Thursday, August 2, 2012

A New Fantasy

The
title will roll out to other online retailers during August 2012, and Amazon
will carry both e-book and paperback versions.

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The introductory
volume of Chronicles of Ash is almost ready to be set free into the
world of e-books!

Planned as a
nine-book series, the fantasy is a steampunk-inspired series of stories of
Ashleigh Peters, a young woman from Brooklyn
that finds herself sucked into another world.

This New World is both strange and awfully familiar, and Ashleigh
often wonders if she is in some sort of coma, the victim of drug-induced
dreams.

While the series
introduces some familiar characters, they turn out to be not what we assume
them to be, and to Ashleigh it all feels like some sort of extended “masquerade-slash-operetta.”

In Vol.
0 – Ash to Ashes, the action begins well into our story as Ash, her
attendant and an old lunatic simply known as the Maestro test a human flying
machine from a cliff in Eleusis. The chronicles then flashes back to Ashleigh’s last days on Earth
and we meet her family, learn of her life in Brooklyn and what she leaves
behind as she is transported to this new world.

As the story
begins, we get the hint that Ashleigh’s travels may not have been a fluke of
nature, that there is a reason, a force guiding it. This fact is what propels
the series forward, and as her chronicler points out, puts into question
whether Ashleigh is some sort of savior or an agent of nefarious forces.

The series is both
a travelogue and diary of Ashleigh’s life as she unravels the mysteries of Eleusis and how she came to it. Will she ever learn
how or why she was brought to this New World?
Will Ash be accepted or condemned? More importantly, will she ever find her way
back home?

Chronicles of Ash is the continued experiment in trying to
publish in a variety of genres.